ISPE Congress on Innovation

Pre-Meeting for PQLI Workshop - Introduction to ICH

Wednesday 9 April 2008

Seminar Leaders:
Bruce Davis
, AstraZeneca, UK
Gert Mølgaard, NNE Pharmaplan, Denmark

This half-day session acts as a stand-alone introduction to ICH Guidance and as an accelerator to for the following 2 days.

Beyond an overview and introduction, the session will identify the perspectives of Assessors and Inspectors and outline essential background to the PQLI initiative.

  • Up to date information on current ICH Guidelines, in particular Q8, Q9 and Q10
  • Perspectives from regulators in all 3 ICH Regions (Europe, USA, and Japan)
  • An essential background to the objectives and considerations of PQLI

Agenda:

13.30 – 13.40 Welcome and Introduction
Bruce Davis, Astra Zeneca, UK
13.40 – 14.20 Introduction to ICH and the way ICH works
Chuck Hoiberg, Pfizer, USA
• ICH Goals and Objectives
• Membership
• ICH Process
• ICH Outputs
14.20 – 15.00 Overview of the ICH Guidelines
Chris Potter, Consultant, UK
• A brief general overview of ICH Quality topics
• A view of its successes and a few issues
• ICH Vision and Background to the current Quality initiatives particularly Q8, Q9 and Q10
• Status and challenges for Industry and Regulators
15.00 – 15.20 Coffee Break
15.20 – 16.05 ICH Implementation Work Groups and ICH Q8/Q9/Q10 Guidelines from an Assessors’ Perspective
Jean-Louis Robert, Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg
Moheb Nasr, FDA, USA
Yukio Hiyama, MHLW, Japan
16.05 – 16.50  ICH Implementation Work Groups and ICH Q8/Q9/Q10 Guidelines from an Inspectors’ perspective
Jacques Morénas, AFSSAPS and Chair of PIC/S, France
Joe Famulare, FDA, USA
16.50 – 17.00 Wrap-up and lead into PQLI and Regulatory “Hot Topics” Round Tables
Bruce Davis, AstraZeneca, UK

Take Back to Your Job:

Description:

ISPE’s Product Quality Lifecycle Implementation (PQLI) initiative identifies a pragmatic approach to implementing ICH Guidelines Q8, Q9 and Q10.